Ribeyes are pretty. So are T bones. Of course they are. Pork chops? Those things look great in a cabinet. But if you really, truly want to support your local butcher, you should be checking out two things: ground meat and sausage.

For the latest featured recipe from Andy’s book, Meat Manifesto, we've used a marinade with fish sauce to “make the lamb pop”. To be honest though, it would work on any meat really. Hit the link in our bio for Fried rice with lamb and crushed peanuts.

For me, the basic peppercorn often gets overlooked as an actual ingredient. I mean, we add it to basically everything as a seasoning but, on its own, it adds a potent level of flavour to a tomato-based braise.

I’m often asked: “What’s your best cut?” It’s an impossible question. I need to know what the weather’s doing, who you’re cooking for, what the occasion is etc. What I can say, with confidence, is that beef shin is our most underrated cut. For me, the ultimate treatment is as a chilli con carne. To serve, make sure there are things like grated cheddar, coriander and corn chips.

Bavette is the perfect cut for a fast, easy weeknight meal. Because of the loose grain on this piece of meat, it’s a good candidate for marinade, as all the sauce can actually get in there, nice and deep.

Ras El Hanout. Ask Google and it’ll tell you it translates roughly as “head of the shop”, or “top of the shop" in Arabic. Ask us and we’ll tell you it translates as “fu*king delicious". In pretty much any language.

Always, ALWAYS make extra rice. Read that sentence more than once. Let it sink in. A bowl of cooked rice is worth having in the fridge people. Specifically so you can fry it up with loads of chilli, chopped spring onion, eggs and miso paste.